I found this bit about the pyramid on a site called Experience Ljubljana:
What used to be a Roman wall 2.4 meters wide and 6 to 8 meters high was renovated less than a century ago by the architect Joze Plecnik, who knew how important nature is. He designed a park inside the wall and built a stone pyramid over the gate using old roman stones from the neighborhood.
I visited this piece of artificial archaeology over twenty years ago and it had a strange and mysterious presence. As a pyramid in a wall it must relate to the Pyramid of Caius Cestius in Rome, but Plecnik gave that idea a unique quality.
Eamonn Canniffe leads the Architecture Research Centre and the MA in Architecture + Urbanism at the Manchester School of Architecture. He was educated in Architecture at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. In 1996 he held a Rome Scholarship in the Fine Arts at the British School at Rome. Between 1986 and 1998 he taught at the University of Manchester School of Architecture, and between 1998 and 2006 at the University of Sheffield School of Architecture. He is the author of Urban Ethic: Design in the Contemporary City (Routledge 2006) (Chinese edition 城市伦理--当代城市设计 2013) and The Politics of the Piazza: the history and meaning of the Italian square (Ashgate 2008). He is co-author (with Tom Jefferies) of Manchester Architecture Guide (1999) and (with Peter Blundell Jones) of Modern Architecture through Case Studies 1945-1990 (Architectural Press 2007), (Chinese edition 现代建筑的演变 1945--1990年 2009) (Spanish edition Modelos de la Arquitectura Moderna -Volumen II 1945-1990 2013). For a number of years he has served as Architecture Series Editor for Ashgate Publishing.
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Wonderful pics! They remeber me Cestius Pyramid in Rome.
Kind regards.
I found this bit about the pyramid on a site called Experience Ljubljana:
What used to be a Roman wall 2.4 meters wide and 6 to 8 meters high was renovated less than a century ago by the architect Joze Plecnik, who knew how important nature is. He designed a park inside the wall and built a stone pyramid over the gate using old roman stones from the neighborhood.
Cheers,
R. Larkin
Okotoks Canada.
Thanks Pablo and Ross
I visited this piece of artificial archaeology over twenty years ago and it had a strange and mysterious presence. As a pyramid in a wall it must relate to the Pyramid of Caius Cestius in Rome, but Plecnik gave that idea a unique quality.
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